Washington State Sues Kickstarter Entrepreneur For Failure to Deliver

Sometimes, fully-funded Kickstarter campaigns will run into production problems. Do backers have any recourse?

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Since its launch in 2009, Kickstarter has become a novel and interesting way to bring your project or product to market. But as simple as it seems, the site has not been without its challenges. When you become a backer, the question still remains: What are you really getting?

Well it better be what was promised, according to a Washington State lawsuit. State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a suit against Ed Nash of Altius Management for an alleged failure to deliver on any of the promised merchandise from his Kickstarter campaign for retro-horror themed playing cards, among other things for backers who paid for.

The campaign was fully funded on October 31st, 2012 and it seems that not a single backer has received their due.

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